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by: Alexander D. Platt, Caroline E. Tripp, Wayne R. Ogden, Robert G. Fraser
List Price: $58.57Amazon.com's Price: $40.45 You Save: $18.12 (31%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781886822078
ISBN: 1886822077
Label: Ready About Press
Manufacturer: Ready About Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 228
Publication Date: January 01, 2000
Publisher: Ready About Press
Sales Rank: 90984
Studio: Ready About Press
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Based on The Skillful Teacher framework, this book is targeted to evaluators and supervisors who want a field-tested tool kit of strategies to improve, rather than remove, underperforming teachers. The text includes valuable legal notes and a model contract, case studies, assessment tools, and personal accounts of leaders in action.
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Rating: - The skillful leader
The book itself is very good. The book is in high demand so you better get your copy as early as possible as you will encounter price inflation due to the lack of availability of the book. Even Amazon got into the rip off game and charged about 50% over the list price.
Rating:  - A highly readable and usable resource
Management and leadership issues are interspersed with well-constructed, specific profiles of mediocre teachers. Ineffective and effective supervisory responses are detailed following each profile, making for an instructive contrast. Observation and self-assessment templates offer useful starting points for the particular demands of addressing the needs of a teacher(often an entrenched veteran)who is neither effective nor disastrous. My team of department chairs have appreciated this book tremendously.
Rating: - the skillful leader
Excellent book with short insights into dealing with mediocre teacher. Any administrator who would like practical and up date insight on how to make teachers better teachers should read this book.
Rating: - RBT has created another indispensable tool for educators
I loved reading this book for all it taught me and for all the important things it reminded me of. . . . Arguing passionately and convincingly that supervisors must have competence, conviction, and control, the authors provide the information and the tools supervisors need to help teachers mired in mediocrity, that sometimes discouragingly long stretch of the continuum between the incompetent and the skillful. Absent an uncommon talent for denial, you cannot read this book without being transformed as ... Read More
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